perl to python

[Ralf Muschall]

Kirk Job-Sluder <kirk at eyegor.jobsluder.net> writes:

> I still find: 
> awk 'BEGIN {FS="\t"} {printf("pattern", $1,$4,$3,$2)}' file 

> to be more elegant and easier to debug.  It does the required task in
> two easy-to remember statements.

It misses the "-i" thing.  You have to wrap it:

NEWNAME=mktemp foo.XXXXXX
mv file $NEWNAME
your_awk $NEWNAME > file
rm $NEWNAME (unless there is a backup argument after the "-i")
mv $NEWNAME file.bak (if there is one)

Ralf
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